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Megabytes in milliseconds: How FireTV uses parallel queries and vertical partitioning to serve millions of customers in Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB with vertical partitioning and hash-prefixed sort keys for parallel reads, removing item-size limits, cutting write costs by 97%, and keeping reads under 50 milliseconds at any profile size.

Megabytes in milliseconds: How FireTV uses parallel queries and vertical partitioning to serve millions of customers in Amazon DynamoDB

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